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I need to speed up my blogging. Maybe I’m tweeting too much and don’t have the stamina for a full length blog post. Or maybe it’s because I haven’t had time or the need at work to write up involved how-tos lately? I could just be frazzled from the busy summer and wedding planning.

It’s taking me too long to get around to returning to my drafts, and collecting the steps and/or details to finish my blog posts. My drafts are building up! I really just need to buckle down and finish them. At least I have the forethought to start the drafts with notes as I think of them so I can return to them later

If there’s one thing that I’ve learned about SharePoint, it’s that there’s about a dozen different approaches that you can take to implement just about anything in it. The “choice” field in SharePoint is no different.

The direct approach is to open the settings of your list or library, and add a new column of type “Choice”. Populate the choice options in the settings, and choose your choice “type” (dropdown, radio, checkbox). The down side to that is in order to edit or add new choices, more than contributor access is required. In many cases, the power users want to be able to add new choices without having to ask for assistance, but we don’t necessarily want to grant additional access in most cases. (more…)